Crédit Agricole

François Marion has left his position as deputy chief executive of Crédit Agricole's corporate and investment bank, and the bank has reshuffled titles — giving new roles to Pierre Gay and Didier Gaffinel, among others.

Toby Croasdell has been appointed global head of MTNs, private placements and commercial paper at Crédit Agricole, following the promotion of previous head Benjamin Lamberg last month.

Issuers from Greater China flooded the market with dollar deals on Tuesday, capitalising on strong appetite from investors ready to put money to work in the new year.

Brazilian bank BTG Pactual became the third Latin American issuer to announce plans to issue ESG-related debt this year after it mandated for a potential senior unsecured green bond.

Standard Chartered and Crédit Agricole jumped into the long end of the yield curve on Tuesday, as the pair looked to harness the desire for long-dated dollar debt.

A pair of senior non-preferred bonds from Swedbank and Société Générale on Tuesday followed Monday’s opener from ING. With three household names now having established pricing points, rarer borrowers are starting to fill the pipeline.

The Republic of Slovenia has repeated its 2020 feat of being the first sovereign issuer in CEEMEA to launch a bond by coming to the market with a mandate on Tuesday. Despite the apparent rush for bond funding, however, many believe that EU funding will provide some of what CEE countries would otherwise have taken from public bond markets.

BMW set Europe's investment grade corporate bond market off to a flying start for the year on Monday, printing €1.5bn of debt at or inside fair value. A range of borrowers are said to be lining up trades in the German vehicle maker's slipstream.

Klépierre, the French shopping mall company, has signed a €1.385bn sustainability-linked revolving credit facility, with the coronavirus pandemic-hit borrower pushing out its refinancing needs to March 2024.

Crédit Agricole’s Benjamin Lamberg has been appointed as the bank’s new Taiwan chief executive officer, GlobalCapital Asia has learnt.

Alterea, the French property developer, attracted strong demand for its sub-benchmark bond issue on Tuesday, prompting bankers off the trade to praise its execution.

Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) have hogged much of the limelight in the socially responsible investment markets this year. But transition bonds, which had fallen out of favour for some time, have demonstrated there is clear demand for the product, following a strong deal for Snam this week and guidelines due for release in the coming days, writes Mike Turner.